The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-06-24

LIST OF LETTERS uncalled for in Bel Air Post.
Office, June GOTH Miss B. N. Hardes,y, Mrs.
Williams (cord,) Mrs. Harriet Roes, Mrs. Eliza
Miss Alice Skiles is Richardson,
p. NJ.
PUBLIC SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT.-Ca
Public School, Miss Matte s. Richardson,
teacher, will give an entertainment In the school
house, on this friday evening, at 8 o'clock.
The programme promises to be interesting and
will consist OF dialogues, recitations, tableaux,
and vocal music. Mr.. Noble l..
Mitchell, School Examiner, will make an ad-
dress. A small admission fee of 10 cents will
be charged to cover expenses.
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DIscoRDANT MUsICIANs.-Last Friday, In
Havre de Grace, George Zebedee jackson and
Thomas Hidden, two wandering colored banjo
players, got into an alteration in the restau-
rant of Hattie Berry, colored, which ended
in Jackson cutting Hidden in the hand with
knife. Officers Moore and Boyd arrested them,
and they were sent to the lookup for the night.
The next day the same officers brought them
both to Bel Air Jail, Hidden being held as wit
ness. They claim TO be from Virginia.
ROBBERY OF A DAIRY.-Last Saturday night
Mr.. B. F. Darbe's dairy, at Clermont Mills,
was entered by rogues, who took AZ gallons of
milk and six bottles of milk already bottled
They also drank the cream from several bottles.
On Sunday morning as Mr. Darbie's milk-man
was on his way to the station he overlook a col
ored man and woman with quantity of milk
in their possession. They took to the woods as
he approached, carrying the milk with them.
Mr.. Darbie says he will pay reward of $40 for
the arrest of the thieves.
BITTEN RY A DoG.-Last Friday Mr.. Joseph
j. Warner, of Dublin district, was severely bit
ten by dog belonging to Mr.. Michael Kelly,
at the White House, near Fallston. The dog
was lying quietly on the porch as Mr.. Warner
approached, and as soon as he entered into con-
versation with the person who came to the door
the dog came up behind him and seized him by
the calf of the left leg, burying his fangs in the
flesh The same dog bit Mr.. Abraham Shertzer,
of Churchville, in similar manner, short
time ago. The animal ought to be killed.
SEVERE THUNDER SToRM.-An unusually
severe thunderstorm passed over this neigh
borhood, last Saturday night, about 12 o'clock.
The lightning was vivid and almost continuous
for an hour and the peals of thunder were ter
rifle.
A bolt struck the fence near Dr. E. Hall Rich
ardson's barn, in Bel Air, SCATTERING gate post
and knocking down several panels of fence. A
large oak tree on the farm of the late DR.. VIM.
T. Munnikhuysen, near Bel Air, was struck and
shattered by lightning.
ABERDEEN AFFAIRs.-Mr. C. G. Kenly,
agent for Emmart, Wightman II Co., of Bati-
more, has had his Office reprinted.
Mr.. c. W. Baker has the frame of his new
dwelling house raised. 1t will no doubt be q
handsome residence, when finished.
Mr.. Morgan Mitchell has the finest field of
sugar corn, perhaps, in the county.
Mr.. John e. Baker has ripe tomatoes.
Mr. Geo. II. Wins has given his store a new
coat of paint, greatly improving its appearance
Mr.. wins expects soon to start coal yard.
Mr.. Henry z. Silver is said to have the fin
est field of tomatoes in the neighborhood.
An INTERESTING LECTURE.-Mr. Stoyan X.
Vatralsky, Bulgarian evangelist, delivered an
entertaining lecture in Churchville Presbyte-
rian Church, last Sunday morning. Mr.. Vat
ralsky described in graphic language the Gus
toms and habits of the Bulgarians and Turks
religious life in the Greek Church, &c. His
portrayal of the prosecutions to which he was
snhipptnd Nyhan ha w ha (.raa
Church and became Protestant was vivid and
affecting. He repeated his lecture In the Bel
Air Presbyterian Church, on Sunday night and
Monday night. His object in lecturing is first
TO increase an interest in foreign missions and
secondly, to obtain funds wherewith to go on
with his education for the ministry.
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FROM WEBsTER.-Mr. r. s. McKendlcss, who
was blind for several years and had cataract
removed from one eye more than a year ago,
has been in Baltimore city for several weeks,
cataract has been removed and he is now doing
well and will soon return home, with the sight
of both eyes restored. He is accompanied by
his only daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Miller.
Miss Nettie Moore, who lives near Paradise,
second district, has thrce-legged chicken, the
third leg of which is shorter and lies between
the other two. The chick is about two weeks
old and is thriving with its extra scratching
apparatus.
Mr.. j. K. Taylor has made extensive i'm.
provements in his dwelling house.
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FIRE INSURANCE MATTERs.-The Executive
Committee of the Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany in Hartford county met at their office in
Bel Air, on Wednesday, Col. Jno. Carroll Walsh,
President, in the chair.
The following losses were ordered paid
John Ulrich, Baltimore county, tavern house,
dwelling and contents, l,751..J; Parker H.
Lee, Hartford county, damage to tenant house,
$50 Jos. b. Aanway, stable and contents,
S3S2.50 Thos. L. Beaumont, barn, IS }; John
Hurley, dwelling house, $500; Thos. b. Heaton,
dwelling house, SEQ; John N. Nelson, 6 hogs
killed by lightning, $50.
Mr.. Nelson's loss was the first of the kind
ever paid by the company, having como under
new provision of the bylaws, adopted last
January, by which stock insured in the CON-
pany and killed by lightning anywhere, either
on the owners farm, or elsewhere, are paid for.
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Two DNAhE DTOKlES.-lI Is u Dau uhy lOT
snakes when the Big Woods cannot match O
snake story from any quarter OF the county,
On Sunday evening of last week as MIR. and Mrs
James 2. Beale were taking stroll near their
house Mr. Beale saw large black snake lying
across the path He had short stick in his
hand, and advancing cautiously struck the
snake across the back, partly paralyzing 1t. The
monster tried to get its head around to attack
Mr.. Beae, but could not, and Mr.. Beale soon
dispatched 1t. The snake was seven feet in
length and measured 101I inches around its
largest part. A few years ago, in the samt
ncighborhood, Mr.. Beale killed black snake
of about the same size.
Frank Forwood, a Big Woods boy, few days
ago killed, in the cellar OF a tenant house OF
Mr.. j. H. Balls farm, a copper-head snake
which WAS ~ feet long and measured q inche:
III circumference.
These snake stories are both vouched for by
credible witnesses. Verify the Big Wood